Strongman and a clown. Grigory Novak and Leonid Engibarov. Grigory Novak was the first Soviet world champion. Not just in weightlifting. The first world champion. Period. He won the title in 1946 in Paris....

“Only clean athletes should be able to compete” International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) The national weightlifting teams of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus could be banned from the Summer Olympics for anti-doping violations. The International Weightlifting...

Hajo Seppelt is a German journalist of ARD/WDR Deutsches Fernsehen and German TV. For many years, Mr. Seppelt has been researching doping and corruption in sports and managed to uncover many big doping scandals in the history of sports. His latest documentaries were...

2016 European Weightlifting Championship came to an end in Norway. In the light of recent meldonium related scandals in the world of Olympic sports, it was interesting how it will affect performance of the...